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OrientaTßugs
Almost every village In Turkey and Persia
is represented in the splendid array now
awaiting you on our third floor. Richly col
ored designs of old Persian myths, dragons,
etc., and the ever charming eccentric pat
terns of the old Turkish specimens.
Prices will not bankrupt you
either, as you’ll notice by these
enumerated below:
Kamadan Rugs
Always admired, a lot of them
hero, average size 36x42 inches
and well worth $lO each; Eft
price U
Antique Beloochistans
Rich dark colorings, medium
sizs: sl2 is the price you've beenlEfl, OO
asked to pay; here now vMJ
Ghendje Rugs
Bought at a special bargain; we
offer them the same way; aver
age size, 3 ft. by 4 ft. 6 in. to 5
ft.; values sl2 to sls; we havri&tt
made the price
Anatolian Saddle-Bag Rugs
Perfect little gems in color and
weaving; specimens among them
that you would probably rate at tin rtrt
twice our price; for choice, each..v ,J -VJ.G\j
Hundreds of others as low in price as
$4.50 and upward to $315. Come, see them
anyhow.
L.S.Ayres&Co.
Agents for Butterick Patterns.
ART EMPORIUM,
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We have Drawing Materials of all kinds
•—all supplies in Drawing Papers, from the
lowest priced to the finest.
Also Instruments such as are used by
pupils of Industrial Training School.
The H. LIEBER COMPANY,
33 South Meridian St.
W The New Fall Patterns
I WALL PAPER
|K : Have decided characteristics:
I Two things especially mark—
I J GALL’S WALL PAPER
One lowness of price,
i The other fit.
All Gall’s Wall Paper Fits
Workmanship enhances the
goods.
PAPERS at sc, 6c and 8c a roll.
} BETTER PAPERS at 10c, l2c,
; toe a roll.
STELE BETTER at 25c to 50c a
I roll.
Albert Gall
17 and 19 West Washington St.
[H TWO RINGS . . 11
Always travel with Cupid—the
bAJrt engagement and the wedding taVAI
■tjpAw ring. We make and sell both—a. gkAAii
pVy? in fact, we hat ean alliance with rt-jujl
Cupid, and devote considerable feTJ*-]
part of our business to rings.
J. C. SIPE. Importer of Diamonds
UfjM Room 4, 18>£ North Meridian St. fcY’Yj
CARPETS
Axminsters, Wilton Velvets, Body Brus
sels, Tapestry Brussels, Ingrain. All new
goods. Rare effects. Workmanship guar
anteed. *
SCHLEICHER & MARTENS,
18 AND 20 NORTH MERIDIAN ST.
Your Dining Room Must Not Be Neglected
Come and see our selection of Flower,
Fruit and Game Pictures.
WARD’S ART STORE
North Pennsylvania St., Opp. Postoffice.
44 G0 to a Glove Store for Glovea,”
NEW GLOVES
(Bought under the old tariff.)
tas&Y&Bl AT 69c and 89c
Worth SI.OO and $1.25.
Cy .Same prices by mail.
IO East Waihlngton Street. (Eat. 1878.)
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CRAWLED TO HIS HOME.
Harry Heed Strnck by a Switch En
gine at John Street.
Harry Reed, a white boy twenty years old,
was struck by a switch engine at the old
John-strcet crossing last night, shortly
after 9 o’clock. Reed was crossing the tracks
when the engine, backing up, struck him.
Tho engineer claims he blew his whistle as
•warning. The engineer evidently did not
stop to ascertain the ext Ant of the boy’s
Injuries, for the lad crawled almost all of
the way to his home, on Brookside avenue.
The people who found him telephoned for
the city ambulance. At the hospital It
■was found that the boy had a compound
fracture of the right leg, with his left foot
*6 badly crushed that amputation will prob
ably be necessary.
To Asylum on Ills Own Commitment.
George Werner, clerk of Bartholomew
county, was taken to the Insane Hospital
yesterday on a commitment bearing his
own name as clerk, written by his deputy
He is still the clerk of the county, and no
ac tion has yet la-en taken looking to the
Appointment of a successor.
A largo variety of Tables.—Wm. L. Elder.
BROKE ALL RECORDS
REPUBLICAN MEETING IN* FIRST
WARD ATTENDED BY THOUSANDS.
1 .
Mr. Hnvding Addreoiei Largest Out
door Audience Ever Gathered in
a Municipal Campaign,
HOT SHOT INTO TAGGARTISM
TELEPHONE AND PARK SCANDALS OF
DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION.
A Strong Arraignment of the Evils
Under Last Two Years of
“Syndicate” Rule.
a
The Republicans of the First ward sur
prised themselves and they certainly sur
prised the candidates and campaign man
agers last night with the magnitude of
their turnout at the first meeting of the
campaign. Seats had been built for some
thing over 1,000 people, but the crowd
packed itself closely up about the stand,
ran away over at the sides and stretched
up beyond the last row of seats to the top
of the hill. In addition to all these there
were enough people in buggies and vehicles
of various sorts to make a respectable
turnout for a county fair. The lowest esti
mates fixed the crowd at from 2,500 to
3,000. It would have been a good big rally
for a national campaign, but for a munici
pal campaign it was a record breaker, and
Robert Senour, the ward committeeman,
under whose direction the excellent ar
rangements had been made, was about the
proudest man in town when he opened the
big meeting.
It was a graceful thing Mr. Bookwalter
did when he asked of the city committee
the privilege of introducing Mr. Harding.
He did it in such hearty fashion and made
such an earnest appeal for support for the
candidate that the Republicans of the city
are to-day prouder than ever of the gal
lant fight he made in the convention.
It was a beautiful night and the circum
stances of the meeting could not well have
been more auspicious. At the spot chosen
on Hillside avenue, just above the engine
house, the great hill curves inward and
forms a natural amphitheater. At the foot
of this had been erected an ample stand,
which was tastefully decorated, and rang
ing up the hillside were seats, while
stretched over the top of the hill was a
line of Japanese lanterns. A cannon
planted at the top of the hill began boom
ing at 7 o’clock and the Oak Hill band
discoursed excellent music while the crowd
was gathering. The great crowd was en
thusiastic but orderly, and while liberally
applauding the points made by the speak
ers, gave close attention to all that was
said.
Mr. Senour called the big assemblage to
order shortly before 8 o'clock and in a few
words introduced Mr. Bookwalter, who
was received with applause. “From the
great size of the crowd here,” he said, “I
am led to believe that the rule among Re
publican candidates for nomination requir
ing them to first get the favor of the First
ward will hereafter hold good among can
didates for election. No man who sees
this outpouring can fail to believe in the
triumphant election of the Republican
nominee on the 12th of October.” He said
this big attendance declared plainly that
this city administration, which had given
so much free coinage of promises with per
formances upon worse than a gold basis,
in spite of its pretensions, had been
weighed and found wanting. That smile of
Thpmus Taggart had lost its efficacy. It
had formerly been said that this smile was
meant particularly for the colored voter,
but now there was an effort to cover the
whole city with Jt. However, the Demo
crats would discover that they could not
make a campaign with no other asset than
a smile, no matter how expansive. “I now
have the pleasure,” he said, “of introduc
ing a man who needs no introduction. If I
have a friend who desires to do me a
favor that I shall remember through life,
if I have a partisan who desires to put me
under the greatest possible obligation, he
will do so by taking off his coat and as
sisting his precinct committeeman and the
chairman in order that we may rejoice to
gether in the triumph of the party, whose
candidate is one of the best friends I have.
Though I was a candidate before the con
vention in August, I feei no hesitation in
saying that I believe the choice of that
convention is ratified by the everwlielming
voice of the party, and when October comts
it will be ratified by the overwhelming
choice of the people.”
MR. HAKDJNG INTRODUCED.
Mr. Bookwalter was loudly applauded,
and as Mr. Harding stepped forward he
was given an ovation. He spoke as follows:
Fellow-citizens and Neighbors When I
was made the nominee ot the Republican
party for mayor at the recent city conven
tion I then said, in accepting the nomina
tion, that 1 would conduct the campaign on
local issues alone and not attempt to drag
any questions of national character into
this contest. I meant by that that I would
discuss only those municipal questions
which, in my judgment, concern the inter
ests of every taxpayer in the city. 1 do
not believe that state or national politics
have any place in this campaign, although
Mr. Taggart, the Democratic nominee for
mayor, did, a few days before his nomina
tion. issue a manifesto to the silver wing
of his party in which he declared his un
dying love and devotion for the devotees
of that cause, and by so doing tried to
inject into this municipal contest all the
bias, prejudice and political partisanlsm
that usually follow In the wake of a na
tional campaign. But when Mr. Taggart
performed this great act of political finesse,
with all the adroitness of a political mas
ter, he did not then know with what rapid
ity prosperity was traveling the highways
of the Nation's commerce.
But the real question that interests the
people of the city of Indianapolis is good
city government. The best means, in my
judgment, for securing better municipal
government than this city has heretofore
and is now having is not a question for the
North Side or the South Side nor for the
people who reside exclusively within the
limits of our city. But It is a question the
solution of which affects the interests of
all the people. I am reliably informed by
those who have studied the population of
this country that the proportion which the
town and city bear to the country is as
one to three, and therefore it is safe to
say that city life, in its political, social
ard religious aspects, determines to a very
largo degroo the national life of our people.
In this view of the matter, then. I submit
to you that municipal government becomes
more than a matter for merely local consid
oration. _
Not lontr asro tho Legislature of the State
of New York extended the limits of the
great city of New York, and at the same
time gave to that city anew charter, which
vas calculated at the time to embrace the
meat advanced Ideas of municipal reforms.
At the same time, or shortly after, a met
ropolitan Journal of that city tailed for a
general of opinion fioni the pub-
Uc regarding the now charter and its de
signs and purposes, anti to this the people
In great numbers resp< r ded from every di
rection. And why was this so? It was
htcause a great representative city, by
making anew departure in government,
was qf vital Importance to all the people,
and all our people are deeply interested In
the final solution of such questions. Amer
ican cities all resemble each other In the
spirit. enterprise. aspirations nnd genius of
the people. The improvements made and
the reforms inaugurated are rapidly taken
up and communicated from one city to the
other. And the growth and development of
the business of a city depends, in a very
large measure, on the facilities for trans
portation which it embraces within its lim
its and which connects it with its suburbs.
But the oL'.t* should not permit private
fortunes to V made out of the necessities
of the people, nor should executive officers
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1897.
or City Councils permit the use of public
streets, which are owned by the people, to
become the means by which the people are
oppressed. Tho State, therefore, has a great
duty to perform In protecting the cities
within its boundaries from the encroach
ments of quasi-public corporations.
CANNOT CAPITALIZE STREETS.
Unjust and unnecessary taxation for the
use of our streets and alleys is oppression,
and that is just why I am raising my voice
against the continuation of this adminis
tration. We demand and shall insist that
these tax-levying companies shall act in
quasi-public affairs with strict accounta
bility, not only to their stockholders alone,
but also to the people, to whom they owe
their right of existence, because the use of
the public streets is granted to them, with
out which they could not exist. And in
return the city says: "The property you
thus create is not exclusively private prop
erty, but Is invested with a public use for
the benefit of the people, and not for their
oppression. A fair and reasonable return
on your investment is your right, but you
cannot capitalize the use of the street or
the power of the State invoked in your
behalf. You cannot collect tolls and pay
dividends upon such a capitalization.”
The people therefore are entitled to the
protection of their government, whether
municipal, state or national, even against
betrayal by their own servants, and cer
tainly against invasion by corporations ot
their own creation. The necessities of the
people therefore do not furnish a legitimate
field for financial speculation by private
enterprise or corporate bodies. The fact that
the necessities of the people of the city of
Indianapolis require the use of telephones
by her citizens affords no excuse for Mr.
Taggart and the present administration to
take advantage of the necessities of the
public and impose an additional tax of $24
a year on every person w’hose business com
pels him to use a telephone. This is not
only taxation without representation, but
is unjust and cruel oppression, and no rea
sonable excuse has ever been or can he
offered to the citizens of Indianapolis for
having perpetrated this outrage. And yet,
in the very face of this flagrant outrage, we
are told by a part of the public press of
this city that Mr. Taggart’s administration
has been a business administration, and
therefore should not be disturbed. For
whom? do I ask. The echo returns from
2,290 subscribers: “A good business admin
istration for the telephone company!” But
for each one of those 2,200 who have paid
$24 a year additional into the pockets of
that corporation, making a grand total of
$46,800 filched from their pockets—to them,
from a business standpoint, this administra
tion has been a failure, a snare and a de
lusion.
When this thing and many others of like
character happen and are made matters of
public record, which no man may deny,
then that man is untrue to his country, his
party and himself, wffio will not raise his
voice in condemnation—not in condemna
tion of the principles of the political party
in which he believes, but of the men who
betray it and the method by w’hich they
control it, only to prostitute it to base ana
selfish ends.
But the friends of Mr. Taggart may say
that the City Council is to blame in this
matter and not he. Let me tell you. my
friends, the records show that the execu
tive has joined hands with the legislative
in all these matters, and there was no ob
struction ever offered to this measure by
the exercise of the veto power: so all things
were harmonious and worked together in
this oppressive scheme. But what about the
business side of this administration that the
Indianapolis Sentinel and the Frenzel-Lte
ber-Holt-Wilson wing speak about in such
glowing terms?
CITY* PLUNGED INTO GREAT DEBT.
Let us see what the facts are along this
line and find out whether or not our city
affairs have been administered as one
would his own private business. The rec
ords speak the facts, and they show that
the present administration took charge of
the city’s business with the lowest bonded
indebtedness that had existed for many
years. During the many years of Repub
lican rule there had never been a bond
issued for the purpose of paying the nec
essary current expenses of the city gov
ernment, but before the expiration of two
years in office ihis administration has in
creased the bonded debt of the city $570,000.
And what is this all for? Seventy thousand
dollars of the amount was tor the purpose
of improving the fire department, yet this
administration had current receipts
amounting in round numbers to more than
one million dollars annually, out of which
this expenditure should have come, if man
aged on business principles.
The present administration also issued
$150,( 00 of bonds with which to build anew
station house. Why should this adminis
tration issue bonds to raise money for that
purpose when the current annual receipts
will now amount to more than SBBO,OOO,
when former administrations have made
similar permanent improvements and paid
the running expenses of the city out of
two-thirds of the present current receipts.
Any kind of business of a private charac
ter which does not pay the necessary ex
penses for running the same is a failure,
and any business man who follows that
polio 7 any length of time ends in bank
ruptcy and becomes a financial wreck. A
city government, if strictly administered
in the interests of the people, must neces
sarily be conducted on the same plan that
a successful business man conducts his
private affairs.
During the last thirty-eight years Indian
apolis has had but three mayors who were
not Republicans, viz., James L. Mitchell,
Thomas L. Sullivan and Thomas Taggart.
The first named served from 1873 to T .5.
Mr. Sullivan’s term began in 1890 and ended
in the latter part of 1893. Both Major
Mitchell and Mr. Sullivan were honorable
gentlemen. The two years during which
Mr. Mitchell was the chief executive of this
citv were disastrous years for the tax
payers. At the beginning of his term, when
the executive department was turned over
to him. the city had a bonded indebtedness
of only $176,000, which is less than one-fifth
of the present current revenues of the city
for a single year, and was far less than the
temporary loans and anticipations on fu
ture tax revenues of tho city carried dur
ing a portion of the Sullivan administra
tion When th • Democratic administration
was ended in 1875 and that party turned the
city over to the Republicans, its bonded in
debtedness as it came from the Democratic
party that had been its guardian for only
two years, was $1,385,500. This was an in
crease of the bonded indebtedness of the
city of Indianapolis which had accrued dur
ing the two years of Democratic rule of
$1 209 500. Twenty-year bonds were Issued
for the money, bearing interest at the rate
of 7 3-10 per cent, per annum, payable semi
alEarlyyin the last Republican administra
tion. and immediately preceding Mr. Tag
gart's entering the mayors chair, these
bonds became due and were refunded with
bonds bearing interests at 4 per cent, per
annum. The city has already paid in In
terest on this debt a vast sum. and the
principal of the debt is still unpaid and
stands as a heritage of Democratic misrule.
CITY’ RESCUED BY REPUBLICANS.
At the close of Mayor Sullivan’s adminis
tration. in 1893, the city's indebtedness was
as follows:
Bonded debt
July 10, 1893, temporary loans 12,.000
July 24. 1893. temporary loans 87,500
Sept. 20. 1893. temporary loans 10,000
Oct. 2 1893. temporary loans 30,000
Accumulated interest on temporary
loans 1,182
Total interest-bearing debt $2,025,682
Sept. 20. 1893, outstanding
warrants tJ5,741
Sept. 20, 1893, cash 11,096
November taxes, anticipated
in August ................... 9.761
Oct. 2. 1893, total city debt less cash
in treasury $2,040,091
But these figures, which are a matter of
record, alld which no man can deny, do not
yet show the desperate condition of the
city treasury at that time. The city had
to anticipate against the November install
ment of tuxes until the date for settlement
between the city and the treasurer. There
was not enough money in the treasury to
pay the September warrants, and when Oc
tober came there was a deficit in the treas
ury of $4,644. The November taxes were
then anticipated, and they drew in advance
tlie money that was to be turned over at
the December settlement, as follows:
Sept. IS. 1893 $5,000
Oct. 5. 1893 10.000
Oct. 6. 1593 15,090
Oct. 13, 1893 5.000
Now. then, adding the taxes which were
anticipated in August, which was $9,675, and
the total anticipation was $44,675- On Oct.
10. 1993. the outstanding warrants amounted
to $59.n86.65. After securing from the treas
urer the anticipation of future revenues,
the city had to its credit to pay outstand
ing warrants the sum of $75,653.38. Had all
the overdrafts been presented at the close
of the Sullivan administration there would
have been an overdraft of $14,233.30. Add
this now to the temporary* loans of $149,000
and the anticipated taxes of $14,765, and we
find that the city was then carrying a
short-time debt of $198,998.30. But in the
middle of October. 1893. the Republican par
ty came into power again in the city gov
ernment. and these temporary loans and
ovodrafts were gradually taken up out of
c urrent revenues, without any Increase In
tho rate of taxation, and at the close of the
last Republican administration they had
been entirely paid off and the bonded debt
had been reduced to $1,877,500, a dcrease of
$7,000.
THE TAGGART FINANCES.
The total current receipts of the city for
the year 1896 were $829,054.56. The current
receipts for the year 1897 will be In excess
of the year 1596, as new territory has been
added to the city, embracing property of
the taxable value of $10,000,000. This will
add fully $60,000 to the city’s current reve
nues annually. The current expenses have
been at least correspondingly increased.
Duri.ig the present fiscal year the city has
issued park bonds of the face value of $350,-
000, for which it received the net sum of
$373,830.20. It has issued station house bonds
of the face value of $150,000, for which it
received the sum of $160,613.17; total realized
from bonds, $534,443.37. Charged against the
money realized from the park bonds are
items aggregating the sum of $7,501.91.
There has been expended from the funds
realized from the station house bonds $33,-
622.49. Total expended df these funds $41,-
124.40. Balance from bonds now unexpended,
$493,318.97. There is now in the hands of the
treasurer belonging to the city a sum total,
Inclusive of the money realized from these
bonds, of $560,122.58; against this sum there
are outstanding warrants amounting to the
sum of $3,065.50; total available cash, $557,-
056.08; belonging to the park and station
house funds is, as we have seen, $493,315.97.
Total., sum of mdney now in treasury sub
ject to warrants for current expenses, $63,-
837.11.
There has been expended thus far in the
present fiscal year commencing Jan. 1 for
current city expenses the sum of $548,117.10,
an average of $66,038 per month. The
amount now in the city treasury is not
sufficient to conduct the current business
of the city for one month at the same rate
of expenditure, and the city’s business from
early in the month of October must be con
ducted. with borrowed money or anticipated
taxes.
Referring back to the bonded indebted
ness of the city at the time Thomas Tag
gart became mayor, we have observed that
the debt was $1,877,500. Os this sum $500,000
were the guaranted bonds known as the
Belt Railroad bonds, issued in 1876. These
bonds were retired in 1896, the Belt Rail
road Company paying the $500,000, together
with the unpaid interest, into the city
treasury, which in turn was paid over to
the bondholders and the bonds canceled,
and not a cent of the city’s revenues were
expended in the payment of these bonds.
No sooner w’as the city relieved from this
guaranted indebtedness than the adminis
tration plunged it into an indebtedness of
$570,0)0, for which the city alone is liable.
Basing our judgment upon the facts as
shown by the expenditures of the present
administration we are justified in saying
that if continued in power for two years
more, Mr. Taggart would hand over the
city to his successor in office with the In
debtedness increased to the constitutional
limit, and the opportunity of the city to
purchase and operate its own lighting and
water works plant destroyed for thirty
years to come.
I have not time in a single, address to
discuss city contracts generally, but will
call your attention to one contract espe
cially deserving the condemnation of the
citizens of this city, and that is the con
tract with the Indianapolis Sanitary Com
pany to destroy the garbage and vault
cleanings of the city at the fixed price of
SIO,OOO a year.
The contract provides that this filth shall
be burned and destroyed in furnaces heated
to a high temperature. This company has
only one small furnace, with a capacity
sufficient to destroy about one-fifth only
of the garbage delivered to it. All the vault
cleanings and about four-fifths of the gar
bage is dumped out on tho Sellers farm
and a little dirt scattered over it. The
stench from this filth fills the atmosphere
of the entire neighborhood, and with every
southwestern breeze its miseous. death-,
breeding vapors are blown into and through
the city. I am reliably informed by those
in a position to know that the contract
furnished a clear profit to the Sanitary
Company of at least $7,000 a year.
PUBLIC PARKS.
$ I am in favor of public parks for the
people so located as to make them acces
sible to the residents of the different sec
tions of the city. I am in favor of the
Fall-creek system of parks, the Indian
apolis Sentinel to the contrary notwith
standing, and no word eyer escaped my
lips, either in private conversation or in
public speech, that justifies an inference to
the contrary. Why shouldn't 1 be when I
own property on the banks of Fall creek,
and w hich property the present Park Board
has seen fit to embrace as a part of that
system.
But I believe in dealing with the park
question from a business standpoint and
not from a standpoint of sentiment. I have
said in public, and 1 now repeat it, that
1 am opposed to buying up all the waste
lands and river bottoms up and down White
river fur the reason that the people do not
want a public park located down south of
the Belt Railroad in the river bottoms, and
the attempt to so locate a park is for
private gam and not for the benefit of the
general public. The people south of Wash
ington street have Garfield Park, which if
properly cared for, will be the most beauti
ful park in any of our Western cities. I
favor a park in the northeastern part of
the city because the lands there are located
on a beautiful watercourse and are not sub
ject to overflow. They possess natural
beauty, a variety of natural forest trees
and can be fitted into an attractive park
at comparatively small cost, and be within
reach of the residents of a thickly popu
lated district.
The recent Republican city convention very
justly criticised the present city adminis
tration for its weak and vacillating course
with respect to public parks, its extrava
gance and want of- business foresight in
the purchase of park sites already made
its creation of unnecessary park officers for
the benefit of political friends; its prema
ture sale of $360,000 of city bonds to raise
funds with which to establish a park sys
tem, and its unfair and unjust methods of
assessing the property of the small property
owners and exempting the property of the
rich.
Here, gentlemen, is a map of the city,
and this line shows the boundary of the
district which has been assessed for bene
fits. That is a black and crooked dead line
and from it you can see how just are the
criticisms on this would-be business ad
ministration made in our platform. The
property assessed is nearly all the small
homes of citizens of our city possessing
small means.
When we observe that Mr. Flack and
Air. Holt, two of the largest property own
ers in the city, were instrumental in draw
ing this black, crooked line so that their
own property should escape the burden of
the taxation, we can readily see a practical
illustration of how “money blinds and the
rich tread upon the poor apparently dead
to all human feeling except the passion to
get and the passion to keep.” When w-e
see this outrageous attempt to burden and
oppress the poor, we know from this sow
ing of the wind, this administration will
reap the whirlwind. “Justice travels some
times with leaden foot, but she strikes with
iron hand.”
But Air. Taggart had no sooner pub
lished the notice of the property to be as
sessed for benefits than the plan and
method of assessment became so unpopular
with the people that a general uprising
against this iniquitous and rotten system
of taxation was imminent and Mr. Taggart
became so alarmed at the situation because
there was another election close at hand,
f. hf td a long-cherished desire to succeed
himself as mayor of this beautiful city and
parks or no parks he was determined now
sffile V 6 offense to as * ew Persons as pos-
THE PARK BOARD SCANDAL.
But we knew very well that he could not
let the searchlight of publicity in on his
methods of taxation for the improvement
and building of parks, and succeed himself,
and so he called In around him his astute
advisers, and after careful consultation it
was agreed that in order to hold off the
day of wrath and the righteous indignation
of the people the oppressive hand of the
Park Board must be stayed until after elec
tion by instituting a suit against itself.
And yet, in the face of all this, a part of
the public press of this city has the gall to
stand before a business public and say that
such conduct is evidence of good business
sense.
Where is the business man on South Me
ridian street that would borrow $359,(100 at
interest, preliminary to bringing suit to de
termine whether an enterprise in which he
was about to engage and in which he de
sired to use the money, was a lawful en
terprise, and at the same time pay $1,014 a
month Interest for the money during a long
drawn-out lawsuit, with tlie money lying
idle?
If you were In doubt, and had an at
torney. as Mr. Taggart had to advise him
at every step in this matter, would you not
test the law before borrowing the money?
If the law covered, as this one did, only a
page of printed matter,- would you regard
yourself, or would your neighbors regard
you, as a good and careful business man
If you failed to read the law
or have your attorney do so.
ard careful} y consider its legality
before incurring so expensive an obligation?
But the Indianapolis Sentinel says that a
Republican lawyer pointed out to Mr. Tag
gart tho defect In the law-. If that It is true
then ho had better change city attorneys
and save a repetition of such blunders in
tho future.
While I am earnestly in favor of the Fall
creek system cf parks proposed by the ad
ministration, and feel deeply Intelested In
its establishment and ultimate improvement
on an equitable system of general taxa
tion that will reach the rich as well os the
CARPET STORE
A New Department in
11. P. WASSON & CO.’S
This season we will add to our business the finest CARPET DEPARTMENT in
this city. More room will be given the department by taking the room over the adjoining
building for Carpets, besides giving the large section on third floon
THE NEW GOODS ARRIVING
Will enable us to show you to-day
42 Styles of Brussels 6 Styles of Wilton
9 Styles of Velvet 1 28 Styles of Axminster
THE BIG RUG DEPARTMENT
Will show almost double the quantity of Rugs of any former season.
Special Sale to-day of 2,000 yards of JQ
Wool Ingrain Carpet at . .. vCIIIS I aiU
11. I>. WASSON 8a CO.
poor, yet there are some significant facts
about the location of the Fall-creek system
by the present administration which are
worthy of consideration by the public. Mr,
Taggart’s bosom friend, Mr. Sterling R.
Holt, was made a member of the Park
Beard by the mayor. Mr. Holt is the prin
cipal owner of the stock of the Holt Ice
and Cold Storage Company, a large dealer
in ice. He has competitors in business—
Mrs. Butch, Mr. Matthew Graves and the’
Arthur Jordan Company, who had ice
pcr.ds and storage houses in the neighbor
hood of Fall creek. The Park Beard found
it necessary to embrace all these ice prop
erties within the new' park, and, of course,
by reaon therseof Mr. llolf will have less
competition In business.
Albert Lieber was also made a member
of the Park Board by the present mayor.
Mr. Lieber is manager for the British syn
dicate beer combine. Frederick Kissel runs
a beer garden on Capitol avenue, near Fall
creek. William Tron runs a. beer garden,
know'n as Falrbank. rear the banks of Fall
creek and immediately south of Kissel’s.
Kissel buys his beer from the Lieber syn
dicate. so I am reliably informed, and Tron
buys his beer from the Terre Haute Brew
ing Company. The Park Board Jest Kissel’s
pioperty out of the park and took Tron’s
Fairbank in. This will bring the park up
next to Kissel’s, and thereby beautify his
place and make it attractive for the sale
of British syndicate beer, and therefore
Tron must go and leave Mr. Lieber’s man
Kissel to sell the favored syndicate beer. I
am not in favor of taxing any man’s prop
erty for park purposes by special assess
ments, but T do favor the purchase and Im
provement of parks by a system of general
taxation.
While speaking on the subject of tele
phone charges, Mr. Harding read an affi
davit of Lew is A. Frazee, of Connersvllle,
showing that in that city competition had
reduced the price of telephones from a
schedule of $3 a month for offices and $2.50
for residence to $1 a month for offices and
66 2-5 cents for residence.
When the applause for Mr. Harding had
died away, J. B. Keallng was introduced
and made a brief but strong speech. In
the course of it he charged that John W.
Kern, who is special counsel for the city,
was the attorney for the Central Union
Telephone Company in the franchise mat
ter.
stealing republican thunder.
How the Telephone Wires Were
Forced Underground.
Yesterday, for tho second time, Mr. Tag
gart made himself ridiculous by claiming
credit for making the telephone and tele
graph companies place their wires under
ground. He is quoted in the Sentinel as
saying:
“There has never been any telephone fran
chise granted since I have been mayor, but
we did compel the telephone and telegraph
companies to put their wires underground
and required the Central Union Telephone
Company to pay the city $6,000 a year for
that privilege.”
The ordinance compelling these com
panies to bury their wires is known as
• General Ordinance No. 48, of 1895.” It was
introduced by Mr. Cooper, Republican, on
Aug. 19. 1895. It was passed by the Repub
lican majority in the Council on Sept. 2,
1595. It was approved by Mayor Denny.
Republican, on Sept. 12, 1895, and reported
to the Council with his signature Sept. it}.
It gave the companies a year to do the
work, and this work fell under the Taggart
regime.
THE C. F. SMITH PARTY
Opens Its Heaibinnrters —Business Not
Very Brisk.
The C. F. Smith party opened headquar
ters in five rooms of the Stevenson building
yesterday, but without an executive com
mittee or any of the usual set of campaign
managers. One or two employes of the In
diana Bicycle Company were on hand, keep
ing things in order, and Mr. Smith was at
his desk, but business did not open very
briskly.
“I am making my campaign myself,” said
he to a Journal reporter, who had asked
who was associated with him in the en
terprise. “I am sure that I have a consid
erable following of business men, who do
not care to talk publicly, but they talk to
me.”
When asked who would be in charge of his
headquarters he replied that he was going
to Chicago In the evening and when he got
back he would get things straightened out
in the headquarters. He said the first issue
of his paper would be ready next Tuesday.
Morton Club to Entertain.
The O. P. Morton Republican Club, of the
Fourteenth ward, will give a social and
musical entertainment to-morrow evening
at 7:45 o’clock in their commodious hall,
corner of Shelby street and Cottage avenue.
An excellent programme has been provided.
Among those to participate are Prof. Co
burn and his colored jubilee singers, the
Bald-headed Glee Club, Prof. Charles Hen
son, Carl Hoenig. Thomas Evans and oth
ers. Refreshments will also be served.
At Went Indianapolis To-Morrow.
Mr. Harding’s next meeting will be at
Morris street and River avenue, in West
Indianapolis, where he will speak to the
citizens of the Twelfth ward to-morrow
evening.
Citizens’ Ticket Meeting To-Night.
A meeting in the interets of the citizens’
t’eket will be held this evening at Tremont
and Michigan streets, in Haughville. F. J.
Van Vorhls and others will speak.
AGAINST WADE HILL
Only Honor Remonstrance Filed Be
fore Commissioners Yesterduy.
Yesterday was liquor license day with
the County Commissioners, and twenty-six
applications were considered favorably.
But one remonstrance was filed. This was
against Wade Hill, a colored saloon keep
er, at 423 West Ohio street. The remon
strance is filed under the Nicholson local
option clause giving the majority of voters
In the ward a right to protest against the
granting of a license, and also brings
charges against applicant. It is
charged that Hill runs a bad place, and
that his resort Is frequented by men and
women of bad character. The remonstra-
tors will be heard next Monday. Th'e fol
lowing licenses were granted yesterday:
William J. Barnes, 701 West Washington
street: Armin B'erkowitz, 930 East Wash
ington street; Fred Burkhardt, 126 South
Delaware street; Paul Bonnre, 604 South
West street; Isaac Cienner, 325 West Wash
ington street; Michael Campbell, 237 West
Washington street: E. C. Coval, 441 West
Maryland street; Calvin Carson, 176 Eliza
beth street; W. H. Cox, 50 and 55 Pendle
ton avenue; William Carson, 118 South
Reisner street; Henry Cavett, stock yards;
John Davey, Michigan street and Holmes ■
avenue; John C. Emerich, Wayne town
ship; John Emhardt. 1621 South East
street; Michael Ford, Michigan and Agnes
street; John Finitzer, 322 West Tenth
street; Alexander Grau, 640 Blake street;
Henry Glattfelder, East and Buchanan
street; William Gechter, Agnes and Michi
gan stre’et; Julius Gaily, 933 Fort Wayne
avenue; Frederick Grossart, Morris street
and Nordyke avenue; John Hughes, 122
West Michigan street, Haughville; C. H.
Hawley, Michigan avenue and Summit
street; C. H. Harmening, 10 North Dela
ware street; J. S. Hall, 122 Circle street;
Timothy Hurley, 202 South Illinois street;
John V. Hafner, 2722 East Washington
street; James H. Kerr, 142 West Washing
ton street; John Koch, 440 South West
street; Val Koerner, 2240 South Meridian
street; John W. King, 23 North Alabama
street: John Kistner, 434 West Washing
ton street; Fred Lichtenauer, 1005 West
Washington street; Eli M. Long and John
Ulrich, 39 Circle street; Michael Lucid, 702
South West street; Michael J. Manpix, 232
Non.h Capitol avenue; August *' kt, 601
Massachusetts avenue; H. J. 1 >\ 456
Blake street; Michael O'Brien, sped
and Shelby streets; Patrick Mu , 461,
West Washington street; William tiller, '■
37 East Court street; George J. F. Moser,
MadiSon avenue and McCarty street; Rich
ard Merrick, 432 West Washington street;
Georg'e Miller, 1228 Columbia avenue; Fred
erick Moormann, 1601 West Michigan
street; Thomas Matthews. 501 Kentucky
avenue; J. D. Moriarity. 354 Virginia ave
nue; Martin Moran, Maryland and Illinois
streets; Owen McAree, 504 Linden street;
Martin McManus. 1002 South West street;
John O’Connell, 1315 Bates street; A. Pot
ter, JO3 English avenue; Frank W. Palmer,
1712 West Washington street; Leo Reiger,
1077 South East street; Joseph RuemelV, 850
West Morris street; Angelo Rosasco, 1750
and 1752 North New Jersey street; W. H.
Secrist, Shelby and Harrison streets;
Henrv Sprengpfeil, 301 Kentucky avenue;
Ernest Schafer, English avenue and Pine
street; Louis Schulte, Mount Jackson;
Thomas Smith, 236 South Illinois street;
John B. Schneider, 474 South Meridian
street; W. M. Scott, 25 East Georgia street;
Harry H. Stillwell, 117 North Pennsylvania
street; Dennis Sulivan, 502 Agnes street;
John W. Sullivan, Thirtieth and Clifton
street; Henry Smith, 41 North Illinois
street; Andreas Tenner, 948 South West
street; M. P. Tivenan, 802 South Capitol
av’enue; Louis Traugott, 16 South Illinois
street; Joe Tobin, Thirteenth street and
Senate avenue; Frank Uebelacher, 2303
South Meridian street; John Weber. 102
North Nobl’e street; G. H. Witthoft, 769
Indiana avenue; Fred Weber, Michigan
and Agnes streets; Charles F. Webber,-372
South Meridian street.
The Evansville Prize Fights.
The Ministerial Association of Evansville
wrote to Governor Mount complaining of
the prize fights there, and the Governor
called the attention of the prosecuting at
torney to the complaint. The prosecutor
replied that the ministers had never pre
ferred charges on this subject, but if they
would do so, he would see that the grand
jury investigated them,. He also declared
that this association had been very active
in obtaining the election of the present city
administration, and it was but a few nights
ago that one of the city officers refereed a
prize
A. J. TREAT A SON’S
Flfty-Secoml Semi-Annual Exhibit of
Fashionable Materials in Men’s
Wear for the Fall and
AVinter Season.
This announcement should prove a wel
come bit of news to many people, coming
as it does in the form of an advance
agent for Jack Frost, Esq., who will soon
be here with his fall outfit, reminding us
of the change of seasons with its opening
round of social pleasures and business life
which always marks the return of the smart
set. Most every one who has been out of
town has either returned or is going to,
according to the society columns, so the
subject of clothes may now be taken up
with due consideration as to one’s proper
needs.
With another wave of prosperity just
breaking upon us, this should be a good
year for dress, and to help the good times
along one should not be unmindful of his
appearance, for what is more convincing of
this fact than the sight of well-dressed
business men the country over? In view of
this forthcoming condition of affairs Mr.
Treat presents a few sartorial facts upon
current styles of the season. He says:
There is no feature of any fashionable
garment that is not admirable in its fitness
to the special purpose or to the general pur
pose of the garment, and there is no fash
ionable garment which offends against good
taste in any way, the majority of them be
ing highly artistic in conception. All gar
ments are comfortable, convenient and seif
expressive of their purpose, pleasing and
harmonious in proportions, graceful in every
line and attractive sh finish. The fabrics
from which they are made are not only un
usually excellent in quality and wonderfully
Ingenious In pattern, but they surpass any
ever before woven in their softness, rich
ness and beautiful blending colors.
Clothes made on such lines* and from
such strikingly artistic materials will have
a distinctive, conservative character that
will stamp them as models of anew era
in which common sense figures as the foun
dation.
The younger set will continue to affect
the style of dress made popular by the
college men of athletic tendencies. This
is an age of athletics, and one must be
rugged in appearance, at least, to bear
out the spirit of the times. Rough Cheviot*,
coarse-woven homespuns ami the manly ef
fect of broad shouMers will do much to
overcome one’s phy deal defects and hide
the frailties of undeveloped youth.
In connection with this house there is
a noticeable air of refinement that patrons
appreciate who have a strong dislike to pub
licity in any form during their selection of
materials, measurements for clothes and
the fitting of the same, the value of privacy
being properly estimated by those in charge
of the various departments where patrons
are obliged to t*; hence no one is offended
by having his peculiarities noted or his taste
commented on during his visits to this
house.
An extended review of the season's sash- 1
ions will be gladly given to all friends and
patrons of the house, who are cordially in
vited to call and inspect the woolens which
are tastefully displayed to great advantage
during the first few weeks of the season.
Sample garments are also on exhibition.
TARIFF COMMISSION LEAGUE
Its Object to Take the Important
Question Out of Polities.
Samuel B. Archer, of Newark. N. J., sec
retary and treasurer of the Tariff Cor*mis
sion League. Is at the Denison House. Ha
is journeying through the West arousing
interest in the work of the league, which
is endeavoring to have the w'ork of tariff
schedules placed permanently in the hand*
of a commission, which shall act as a court
in hearing and determining causes of man
ufacturers who think they are not suffi
ciently protected, of importers who think a
certain line has too high a tariff or any
other questions that may come up of this
character. The plan Is set forth in a bill
introduced at the last session of Congress
by Mr. Stone, of Pennsylvania, now pend
ing before the ways and means committee.
“We have studied and worked upon this
subject for years,” said Mr. Archer, “and
we find that as a basis for such commission
one policy or the other would have to be
declared the policy of the government, and
we believe the past four years have proven
that its policy should be one of protection,
and it is so declared in the bill. With this
declared the policy of the government, the
details as to schedules could be safely left
to a high-class commission, which might
mxm proper presentation of the matter by
parties in interest make changes in particu
lar schedules, going upon the basic prin
ciple that the manufacturer is entitled to
an amount of protection equal to the dif
ference between the labor cost here and in
the competing country. I find everywhere
the warmest encouragement among busi
ness men for this method of taking this
questiop.of business out of politics. It has
been a pulitic&l football ever since thirteen
years after the organization of the govern
ment. and all thoughtful statesmen have
been trying to hit upon some method of
taking it out of politics and giving it sta
bility. 1 believe we have struck the only
proper method. Nearly all the commercial
bodies of the country have' indorsed the
idea, and one of the earliest and warmest
indorsements was from the Commercial
Club of Indianapolis.”
VANDALIA LINE.
Excursion to Terre Haute,
Sunday, Sept. 12.
*t.OO—ROUND TRIP—SI.OO.
Tickets good going on trains leaving at
7:30 a. m. and 8:10 a. m. Returning on spe
cial train leaving Terre Haute at 7 p. m.
W. W. RICHARDSON, D. P. A.
fI.OO—CINCINNATI AND RETURN—SI.OO
Via C., H. A D. R’y,
Sunday, Sept. 12.
Two special fast trains leave Union Station
7 and 7:15 a. m. Returning .leave Cincin
nati 7:15 p, m. Baseball, Manhattans vs.
Shamrocks. James J. Corbett will play
first base for lat er team.
SI.2S—ROUND TRIP—SI.2S.
To Dayton, 0.,
via Pennsylvania lines next Sunday, Sept.
12. Special train leaves Union, Station 7
a. m. Returning leaves Dayton 6 p. m
An excellent opportunity to visit the Sol
diers’ Home.
Do as Rome Does!
Bea Frenchman! The exhibit of French
’kerchiefs in the show window at Paul H.
Krause’s haberdashery show all the gayety
usual to the suave people over the way.
Dainty colors and unique designs make up
the display, and the gentleman who wants
to be up with his Paris ideas can gratify his
taste. In fact, he can do as Rome does or
as France does.
Important.
Special train for Dayton via Pennsylvania
lines next Sunday, Sept. 12, will leave Union
Station at 7 o’clock a. m., instead of 6:30 a
m. Fare, $1.25 for round trip.
W. W. RICHARDSON, D. P. A.
Insure with German Fire Insurance of In
diana. General offices, 29 South Delaware
street. Fire, tornado and explosion.
Feed your horse JANES’S Dustless Oats.
McGllllard Agency Cos. Fire insurance.
Fire Insurance.
W. W. Dark, North Meridian street.
We Beg to Announce.
The arrival of our tall suitings. Get your order
in early before the big rush. Fifteen busy tailors.
T. w. FLEMING, 316 Indiana avenue.
Klondyke two-step. Carlin & Lennox, No. 8 E.
Market.
DON’T
Make purchases of Sterling Silver
ware until you have seen our line.
A DROP
In prices has just gone into effect.
We have the largest assortment in
the State.
Jd^-gwA.
INDIANA’S LEADING JEWELERS.
DO You Believe In Buying
the Best In \
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IF so, see ....
SANDER & RECKEfn
"THE OLD RELIABLE,”
115,'.'17, 119 E. Washington St.
Opposite Courthouse.